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Watch Me Work: Meet Creative Entrepreneur and Designer Dionna Dorsey
"I think it's really important that you allow yourself time to explore. The more you explore yourself, the more you'll understand, where a lot of your life gets meaning from."
This is Watch Me Work, an editorial series celebrating the limitless potential of Black, women entrepreneurs shifting and shaping culture through their work. La Colombe Coffee Roasters and Kno. Media have partnered to amplify the voices of Black women in our community because we know there's nothing like the mind of a Black woman and because we know that there's nothing that beams as bright as Black Girls Shine.
You've likely seen the viral "Trust Black Women" t-shirt on social or during last summer's protests following the murder of George Floyd. That powerful shirt and many other inspirational designs are the brainchildren of D.C.-based designer and District of Clothing founder Dionna Dorsey. Founded in 2014, District of Clothing began as a side hustle for the full-time creative director but has now evolved into something much bigger.
The brand encourages self-love, action, and progression and has partnered with the likes of Planned Parenthood and Washington Area Women's Foundation to give back to important social causes. Below, we chat with Dionna about living a well-unbalanced life, what District of Clothing can teach the fashion industry at large and how to better understand one's purpose.
District of Clothing is a brand that "encourages progression, inspires action, and supports self-love." What void were you looking to fill when launching the brand in 2014 with this specific mission?
There were actually a couple of voids I was hoping to fill. There was an earlier version of the current 'Dreamer Doer' design that came to me in a dream in January 2014. I scribbled it out on a piece of paper then later that day showed it to a friend. They thought it was amazing, life happened, I put it in my purse and kept it moving. Fast forward to summer 2014 when my prime client went on a spending freeze and I was like, "Oh, now what do I do?"
At this time, all of the podcasts I was listening to were raging about side hustles, multiple streams of income, and leveraging your pre-existing skills, so I quickly pivoted and said, "Oh, I can do a side hustle." I was a fashion designer in my former life — which is what I call my 20s and I'm now 40 — so I decided that I could use the branding and marketing skills I already had to sell a couple of t-shirts. To make a much longer story short, the evening before Thanksgiving 2014, I built out and launched a website and gave a couple of girlfriends some t-shirts. They had higher ranking WooCommerce stores and larger followings on Instagram but I didn't ask them to post, I just figured what's better than seeing your friends wear something and tell you the truth about your product? They ended up posting and that's what got things initially rolling with District of Clothing on social.
The other void I was looking to fill was highlighting how special Washington D.C. is. I think it happens in a lot of major cities where you have some sort of proximity to power but in these cities, you have access to different types of people where you can brunch with someone on a Sunday, they share an idea, and the next time you see them, they've actually moved on that idea. That would often inspire me to be confident about moving forward on something so through District of Clothing, I really just wanted to spread positivity throughout as many districts as possible.
District of Clothing is not your only baby, you're also the founder of design boutique Dionna Dorsey. How do you achieve work-life balance while prioritizing your own self-care?
I don't believe in living a balanced life, I believe in living a well-unbalanced life. I believe in being very focused and mindful on what's in front of me and what is absolutely needing my attention at that time. I think [the idea of a balanced life] creates standards that the average person can't meet. The average person deals with, possibly parents or guardians, bills, the news, their own mental situations within, etc. There's just no way that we can set forth these just unrealistic standards of wellness.
I'm very aware that I have to put myself at the top of my list of things to do, and then also at the bottom. If I'm not at the top of the list then everything else can't get done. Then I also have to be at the bottom of the list so that I know how to recharge in order to do my to-do list for the very next day.
How do you identify and how would you say your identity plays a role in the work you do?
I'm a Christian Black woman. I love my Mama, I love Jesus and I'm very blessed to be able to do the work that I do.
What do you hope District of Clothing can teach the fashion and lifestyle industry at large?
That's an article in itself. I hope that District of Clothing will let the world know that fashion should be inclusive and not exclusive. I hope that [the] fashion [industry] learns from District of Clothing the power of small beginnings. Not just for Black women creatives, but for anyone. Fashion should be used to transcend, to uplift and it shouldn't just be used to appropriate, it shouldn't be used to oppress, it shouldn't be used to exclude. Fashion can be a tool for greatness and progression. I hope that's what District of Clothing brings to the world.
What advice do you have for others looking to lean into their strengths, or just stay true to their mission?
I think it's really important that you allow yourself time to explore. To explore the world, to explore various industries, and most importantly to explore yourself. The more you explore yourself, the more you'll understand, where a lot of your life gets meaning from. For me personally, that is very much connected to my spirituality, to my family, and to the places that I've been in the world.
It's equally as important, to try. To try, to fail, to fail forward, and then try again. That is part of when you realize you realize your ability to do, you realize your ability to get back up, you realize your ability to continue moving forward. That's what allowed me to better understand my purpose, and how I intended to make that purpose shared with the world.
"It's equally as important, to try. To try, to fail, to fail forward, and then try again. That is part of when you realize you realize your ability to do, you realize your ability to get back up, you realize your ability to continue moving forward."
Tell us about a moment that being a Black female entrepreneur has made you extremely proud.
I have two things that first come to mind and I'm going to get emotional here. In 2015 I did the branding and marketing for the 50th anniversary of the March to Selma. I was on my way to Selma and was telling my grandmother about the project and what I was doing. She had that grandma silent cry and asked if she could come too. Just seeing that full-circle moment and hearing her voice, knowing that she did what she could to give me a different life was…there are no words. Then just a couple of days later, I was sitting nine rows back from the stage and saw President Barack Obama sitting up there with Madame Michelle. Knowing that I had a part in creating some of the branding and visuals for this event was wonderful. Being able to cross that bridge with John Lewis was remarkable. It really filled me up.
The second thing that comes to mind is seeing how some of my designs from the Stand With Black Woman of Planned Parenthood to the Dream Doer, to Trust Black Women, to the Do Not Touch the Artwork shirts were worn by people protesting and marching over the summer. I have photos of people getting arrested because they were standing up for themselves, for their rights, and for one another, wearing District of Clothing. Knowing that someone purchased something with their hard-earned money and decided to pull it out of that drawer to put it back on for such an important meaningful day for them is just unimaginable.
This interview has been condensed for clarity.
Words: Clarice Metzger
Photography: Provided by Dionna Dorsey
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Rancho Texas – polski film przygodowy z 1958 roku. Film był reklamowany jako pierwszy polski western, nie jest to jednak western w klasycznym znaczeniu tego słowa, gdyż akcja nie dzieje się na preriach Dzikiego Zachodu, lecz w Polsce w Bieszczadach (zdjęcia kręcono w Tworylnem).

Fabuła
Dwaj studenci zootechniki, Jacek i Stefan, przyjeżdżają w Bieszczady, by przeżyć wakacyjną przygodę. Zafascynowani westernami zatrudniają się jako "kowboje" na miejscowych wypasach bydła. Jednak zamiast przygód ich udziałem jest niekończąca się nuda. Wszystko zmienia się, gdy Jacek w pobliskim barze zaczyna podrywać miejscowe dziewczyny. Jedna z nich okazuje się być sympatią szefa bandy przemytników.

Główne role
 Bogusz Bilewski jako Jacek,
 Teresa Iżewska jako Walentyna,
 Wanda Koczeska jako Agnieszka,
 Bronisław Dardziński jako profesor,
 Wiesław Gołas jako Marcyś,
 Jerzy Jogałła jako Stefan,
 Wiesław Dymny jako Góralczyk,
 Henryk Hunko jako Gapa.

Linki zewnętrzne

 Jerzy Piekarczyk "TEXAS NAD SANEM"

Filmy kręcone w Bieszczadach
Filmy w reżyserii Wadima Berestowskiego
Polskie filmy przygodowe
Polskie filmy z 1958 roku
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Jesse Williams has split from his wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, after nearly five years of marriage. On Monday, TMZ reported that the couple filed last week; though it isn't clear which of them initiated the process, the breakup is "amicable." The handsome Grey's Anatomy star first began dating Aryn, a real estate broker, in 2008, and the couple married in September 2012. They share two children, son Maceo and daughter Sadie, and Aryn is a cofounder of Jesse's Ebroji app.


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CEEKAY JONES
By Anders Ekdahl May 11, 2018 May 11, 2018 Interviews
Perhaps not as hard as most other stuff I feature but this still moves me so much that I had to interview CEEKAY JONES Anders Ekdahl ©2018
When the band came into creation what was the main purpose for it?
– Well it was quite the opposite actually. It was the ending of my wanting to be in a band, and the need for me to be solo and explore musically. I had always felt confined being in a band and there is always compromise that needs to be had if you want a band to work, or even last. Id been in bands for 10+ years so I needed to be free.
How hard is it to come up with a sound that is all yours? What bits'n'pieces do you pick up from other stuff to make it your sound?
– Id say being true to yourself musically is how you create a song thats all yours. Trying to recreate the wheel so to speak isn't what its about (Unless thats what drives you). I think making music that is what you feel is whats "Yours". My sound is a amalgamation of everything musically Ive been thru and what I feel when I wake up in the morning. Im not into being boxed in. If I wake up feeling like writing a ballad Ill do it, and some mornings I wake up and wanna write a hardcore song. Its just about staying true to your raw emotion in the moment of creation.
I have no idea what kind of creative process you guys go through but how hard is it to record and release new songs?
– My creative process is ever changing, but I do enjoy being alone when I start my ideas. I think theres a time for collaboration and input and there is a time for letting your own creativity come thru without input. Recording can be the easiest thing in the world, and the hardest thing in one session. Anyone who's recorded knows what I mean in that statement. Its a rollercoaster…lol
Today technology allows you to record at home and release your music digitally. But in doing so is there a risk that you release only single songs because that is what is demanded to stay atop and therefore you end up killing the album for example?
– Its a double edge sword, yes the ability is now so accessible that everyone who wants to can, but its also watered down the market with a lot of weak content (imo). Yes, we are back to a singles market and I think that is a double edge as well. On one hand focusing on one song at a time makes you really get the best of the song (Hopefully) and it allows you to not get overwhelmed with the task. But, on the other hand the "album" is like the ultimate statement as an artist I think. Creating that body of work that flows together and tells a story. We have lost that in the music industry and thats a shame.
I for one feel that the change in how people listen to music today, by downloading it and expecting to get it for free, will kill music as we know it. What kind of future is there for music?
– Music itself will never die. The business of selling and marketing music in its current form is dying but its also evolving. Music is the universal language for the human race. Its not possible to kill something that we inherently all have inside us. The future of music business is something we will just have to see, but music itself is alive and well. Now, the future in performing live music is a whole different question. But, you didn't ask that 😉
What kind of responses do you get to your music? What has been the thing that has gotten the most attention?
-The response has been really great honestly. A lot of people are surprised with my direction, especially coming from Skarhead and the NY Hardcore/Underground Hip-Hop scene. I think the most attention has come from that. People are shocked, but also genuinely like the music.
We live in a world where there are no real distances between people communicating anymore. What has been the most surprising contact so far?
– My fans are from all over the globe and its rad to have the ability to reach them as well as communicate with them. Im a very hands on person with my fans so I try to response and stay in contact with anyone who shows love to me. Its always surprising to arrive in a place you've never been, thousands of miles from home and here someone singing your songs with you.
Does playing in a band make you feel like you are a part of a greater community? What has music brought with it that you would have otherwise missed out on?
– Playing in a band is like being married to the individuals you're sharing music with. Its an organic feeling and when the chemistry is right its the best feeling in the world. Its also a lot of work to keep it all going smooth. I think the greater community is being apart of making music in general, and sharing with the world your part in it. The biggest gift is being able to see the world many times over and experience cultures I would have never even dreamed of experiencing. Just being able to do something I love to do an have it take me around the world is unreal, and without it I don't think Id have been able to do that. Or at least I don't think I'd experience it in the same way.
What is the live scene like for you? Do you feel that playing live helps building a bigger following?
– Playing live is everything to me. I absolutely am happiest when I performing. The raw connection to my own passion and to the people in the room is what its all about. I think to truly experience being a musician you gotta play live. For some people its not what they are comfortable with, but the chemistry that occurs when its all happening is undeniable.
What plans do you have for the future?
– More of everything! More songs, albums, touring, writing, and recording. I love what I do and I wake up everyday excited to do it. As long as I'm alive and able to make music I'll be doing it.
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Throughout history, the bearer of bad news has been met with a frosty reception and the phrase 'don't shoot the messenger' has its roots in a number of anecdotal tales of military generals being so disgusted with the news they have received that they have literally shot the messenger.
To my knowledge, no surveyor has actually been shot by a disgruntled broker following a disappointing valuation, but it is certainly a point of contention when it emerges that a property is perhaps worth a little less than expected.
Unlike estate agents, who are competing to win a listing, a surveyor has no financial bias to value a property at anything other than the true market value and so, while it can be frustrating, a down valuation is actually beneficial for your client if it saves them from paying over the odds for a property.
Knowledge is power – you can't change the value of the property, but by understanding its true value earlier in the process, you can be equipped to make the right choices.
One area where the early involvement of a surveyor can be particularly beneficial is at the start of a development project, before even an application for credit has been submitted.
Unrealistic expectations of the price that can be achieved for properties on a development is a common reason for a credit application to be declined by a lender. By involving a surveyor at an early stage, a developer can receive an honest appraisal that they are building the right type of property at the right price for the area. This can provide the peace of mind, not only that the credit application has a better chance of being approved, but also that the completed properties will be well pitched for a quick sale.
I have seen many developers build properties that are pitched to an overseas market, with pricing that is not reflective of that particular area. This can especially be the case on a permitted development scheme that does not need planning permission and often does not meet the minimum size requirements of traditional properties, which can be easily missed at the beginning of a development. The result is a final development that is difficult to sell because the properties are not comparable on size or price to others in the area.
Don't shoot the messenger – embrace local knowledge. Good planning at the outset can help to ensure a smoother life cycle for a development, and this helps all parties involved.


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Biografia

Il 27 gennaio 1701 ereditò ii patrimonio di famiglia dalla sorella maggiore, monaca oblata (in Tor de' Specchi, Roma), Olimpia, compresa la sovranità sul principato di Piombino, che l'aveva contrastata in tanti modi comprese le vertenze legali.

Il 16 ottobre 1681 sposò Gregorio Boncompagni, V duca di Sora e Arce, governando con lui fino al 1707. Il contratto di matrimonio prevedeva che i discendenti avrebbero assunto il cognome congiunto Boncompagni Ludovisi.

L'8 febbraio 1706 la principessa visitò Piombino insieme al marito: la coppia risiedeva principalmente nella villa in Roma e nei castelli di Isola del Liri e di Sora; a Piombino nella cittadella.

Il 7 giugno 1706 la sovrana emanò dalla cittadella piombinese (sede dei principi), congiuntamente al consorte, un decreto avente per oggetto la bonifica agraria di Vignale.

Nel 1715 Ippolita, vedova da otto anni, fece parte del prestigioso seguito che accompagnò a Madrid Elisabetta Farnese, sposa del re di Spagna Filippo V.

Nel 1726 la principessa manifestò la propria preoccupazione per il saccheggio subìto da Piombino da parte dei barbareschi e corsari maltesi.

Alla sua morte, il 29 dicembre 1733, le succedette la secondogenita quarantasettenne Maria Eleonora che aveva sposato, per motivi dinastici, lo zio paterno Antonio Boncompagni. Fu tumulata nella cappella Ludovisi nella chiesa romana di Sant'Ignazio, accanto al marito, ai genitori e al papa Gregorio XV.

L'ultimo principe di Piombino della famiglia fu il pronipote di Ippolita, Antonio I (1777-1801): lo Staterello fu occupato dalla Francia e Napoleone I lo assegnò, con Lucca, alla sorella Elisa e a suo marito Felice Baciocchi. Dal 1815 il principato fu annesso al granducato di Toscana.

Discendenza

Dal matrimonio con Gregorio I Boncompagni, Ippolita ebbe i seguenti figli:
Ugo (1684-1686)
Maria Eleonora, (1686-1745), principessa di Piombino, sposò Antonio Boncompagni, suo zio
Costanza (1687-1768), sposò Vincenzo Giustiniani, III principe di Bassano
Teresa (1692-1744), sposò Urbano Barberini, III principe di Palestrina
Giulia (1695-1751), sposò Marco Ottoboni, I duca di Fiano
Anna Maria (1696-1752), sposò Gian Vincenzo Salviati, V duca di Giuliano

Ascendenza

Immagini correlate

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Bibliografia
Ugo Boncompagni Ludovisi, Lettere di una signora romana del secolo XVIII: Eleonora Boncompagni Ludovisi, Città del Vaticano 1935.
Licurgo Cappelletti, Storia della città e Stato di Piombino, Livorno 1897.
Mauro Carrara, Signori e Principi di Piombino, Pontedera 1996.

Voci correlate
 Boncompagni (famiglia)
 Ludovisi (famiglia)
 Principato di Piombino

Principi di Piombino
Ludovisi


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Home Industry News Releases Champagne Henriot Releases Cuvée Hemera 2006
Champagne Henriot Releases Cuvée Hemera 2006
Eighth-Generation Family-Owned Champagne House Continues Legacy of Prestige Cuvée Releases from Exceptional Vintages and Founding Grand Crus Vineyards
NEW YORK, September 28, 2021 – Champagne Henriot, the esteemed Champagne house founded in 1808, has announced the release of Cuvée Hemera 2006 ($185 SRP), the latest vintage release in the house's long history of prestige cuvées. Champagne Henriot is one of the last remaining family-owned Champagne houses. It is known for its deep understanding of the diverse Champagne terroirs, in particular Premier and Grand Crus, with viticultural savoir-faire built over two centuries beginning with its storied founder, Apolline Henriot. The grapes for Cuvée Hemera 2006 are sourced entirely from the six original Grand Cru parcels that founded the house in the 19th century – paying tribute to the origins that lay the groundwork for centuries of prestige winemaking.
"In every aspect, Cuvée Hemera is symbolic of Maison Henriot's mastery of time," says cellar master Alice Tétienne. "After 12 years of aging in the darkness and silence of our cellars, Cuvée Hemera 2006 still bears the freshness and liveliness of spring, while the minerality and floral notes of Chardonnay heighten the fruit-forward accents of Pinot Noir."
"The name Hemera is a tribute to the Greek goddess of daylight and represents this Champagne's lively style and precision, achieved only through winemaking wisdom passed down through the generations and the patient passing of time," adds Gilles de Larouzière Henriot, CEO and President of Maisons & Domaines Henriot and eighth-generation member of the Henriot family. "Our team is excited to release this exceptional vintage, with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in equal parts, all hailing from the finest parcels of my ancestors' six original Grand Cru villages."
Cuvée Hemera's Pinot Noir is sourced from Apolline Henriot's original 1808 parcels in the northern Montagne de Reims villages of Mailly Champagne, Verzy, and Verzenay. The Chardonnay is sourced from the Côte des Blancs villages of Chouilly, Avize, and Mesnil-sur-Oger, from parcels acquired by the family in 1880 through marriage of Apolline's great grandson, Paul Henriot to Marie Marguet of the Côte des Blancs. In blending these six original Grand Crus together for Cuvée Hemera 2006, Maison Henriot aims to honor its founder, heritage, and well-established legacy of producing prestige cuvées with precision and expertise of the terroirs they are proud to be a steward of.
Cuvée Hemera 2006
(50% Chardonnay, 50% Pinot Noir – 100% Grand Gru; minimum aged for 12 years on lees, 5g/L dosage; $185 SRP)
Brightly tinged and golden yellow in color, with a delicate and persistent stream of mousse. The bouquet offers notes of white flower, linden leaf, and a hint of vanilla; it is precise and mineral with a layer of iodine and saline accents that are characteristic of the most prestigious chalk parcels of the Côtes des Blancs. In great contrast to the nose, the palate is lively and fresh with notes of candied fruit, apricot, ripe peach, nectarine, and grapefruit. Notes of pastry and spiced fruit impart the lengthy finish. Cuvée Hemera can be enjoyed immediately or kept for an additional 5-10 years in the safety of a dark cellar to allow the Champagne to fully flourish over time. Best served at 50ºF.
The 2006 vintage in Champagne was a year of great contrast, which is reflected in the tension and concentration of Cuvée Hemera. The winter started out dry and cool, leading into a chilly spring that slowed down development of the vine's growth cycle. Vine activity increased rapidly as late spring and summer saw a sharp turn toward hotter temperatures, giving way to ripeness and concentration development in the grapes. Just before harvest, the region experienced much-needed rain that replenished the chalk soils in the vineyards, contrasted by the dry weather and plentiful sunshine that made for ideal harvest conditions beginning on September 13.
Cuvée Hemera 2006 will be available nationwide in the U.S. beginning this month and can be purchased at fine wine retailers. For more information on Champagne Henriot, visit www.champagne-henriot.com, or follow @champagnehenriot on Instagram and Facebook.
About Maisons & Domaines Henriot America
Established in New York City in 2005 by the Henriot family, Maisons & Domaines Henriot America is an import company specializing in the distribution, sales and marketing of high-end wines produced by wineries which are references in their own region. Representing centuries of family winemaking expertise, the portfolio includes the Henriot family brands, as well as leading producers from Oregon Italy, and France: Champagne Henriot, William Fevre (Chablis, Burgundy), Bouchard Père et Fils (Burgundy), Château de Poncié (Fleurie, Beaujolais), Beaux Frères (Oregon, CA) and Tenuta di Ghizzano (Tuscany, Italy).
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Sigurdsson reports good progress on recovery front
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Gylfi Sigurdsson says he is feeling the benefits of his rehabilitation work as he bids to recover from the injury he sustained earlier this month.
The Iceland international damaged his knee during the home win over Brighton & Hove Albion but managed to play the full 90 minutes before learning the extent of the problem.
Scans revealed no significant ligament tear but the initial prognosis by Everton's medical team, one contested by manager Sam Allardyce, was pegged at between six to eight weeks.
That means he stands a good chance of being fit for the World Cup in Russia and could, perhaps, play for the Blues before the Premier League season is out.
"It is going well and I am steadily making progress each day," Sigurdsson told evertonfc.com. "I have not had any setbacks, I am off the crutches and out of the brace and almost back to walking normally.
"The medical team have been really good and kept me busy in the past few weeks, they want to get the work in.
"We have been working on getting the swelling down and the fluid out of the knee – and getting some movement back into the knee.
"I am seeing the specialist in London next Tuesday, he will reassess me and we will take it from there."
Everyone has injuries during their career and you just have to get through it.
"I am not very patient, I have to be honest. I like to get things done quickly. But I know this is going to take time and I will have to be patient and make sure I am not rushing it.
"The body will take its time to recover and I have to listen to it. I have been very lucky with injuries in my career and, hopefully, I will come back stronger and fitter than ever."
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Safefood defends its "Stop the Spread" campaign
The anti-obesity campaign has been criticised for being too simplistic, but experts say it can work over time. "Stop the Spread" says that waist size can indicate an obesity problem.
Jun 2nd 2011, 5:45 PM
THE DIRECTOR OF Health and Nutrition at Safefood has defended the launch of a campaign called "Stop the Spread", which aims to highlight the problem of obesity.
Dr. Cliodhna Foley-Nolan has told the Medical Independent that the campaign – which warned people that waist sizes of more than 32 inches for women and 37 inches for men indicated that you might be "in denial" about your weight – was not intended to cause offence.
The campaign cost €450,000, but Nolan says that the indirect cost of obesity in Ireland is estimated at €400 million a year. She says the campaign's message about encouraging people to measure their waistline is a way of directly addressing a weight problem. Nolan says that while there has been some negative feedback, the campaign will continue. She says the controversy has "made people talk".
Professor Ivan Perry, Professor of Public Health at UCC says that it will take time to see if the campaign has an impact. He uses anti-smoking campaigns as an example, saying that that it took decades for people to change their attitutudes.
Professor Anthony Staines, from the DCU School of Nursing says that while Ireland doesn't have a great record of producing effective public health campaigns, they are improving , and that the Stop the Spread campaign is an effective way of getting the public's attention.
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The pride George expressed for his very successful and brainy wife gave a boost to current gender equality initiatives. George Clooney's behavior brings us one step closer to equal opportunities for both genders.
Unfortunately, the truth is that some men are still uncomfortable, and feel threatened, around women that may have equal or greater brainpower than himself.
But George is not afraid! He says it and he shows it.
Brainy women are 'in vogue,' and an ego that respects and support brainy women are 'the new black' for men. Thank you, George!


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Smith adds O'Kelly to his backroom team...
SADDLERS' boss, Dean Smith, is happy to have Richard O'Kelly back as his right-hand man.
The pair first worked together during the course of the 2011/12 season before renewing acquaintances last summer.
"I'm really pleased that Richard has returned to the club," said Smith. "We built up a good working relationship and I am delighted that he is part of my backroom staff again.
"His experience, knowledge, work ethic and sheer enthusiasm is what this club needs to help us to continue making progress.
"It wasn't an easy decision because I had a few other irons in the fire, but Richard was an integral part in putting the foundations in place for what was a successful season last time around and Bristol City's loss is certainly our gain."


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Q: Sorting a list using argsort in Numpy? I have a list in python and the first numbers are [[29.046875, 1], [33.65625, 1], [18.359375, 1], [11.296875, 1], [36.671875, 1], [23.578125, 1],.........,[34.5625, 1]]
The above list is given an id of listNumber. I'm trying to use numpy.argsort to sort it based on the float elements:
listNumber = np.array(listNumber)
print(np.argsort(listNumber))

But this gives me the following but not sure why:
[[1 0]
 [1 0]
 [1 0]
 ...
 [1 0]
 [1 0]
 [1 0]]

Why is this returning this? and is there another way to approach this?

A: Ok so i think there's two things going on here:
1- Your list is a list of lists
2- The 'argsort' function:

returns the indices that would sort an array.

According to the documentation.
So what is happening is the function reads through each item of the list, which in itself is a list, say index 0 is:

[29.046875, 1]

Then it is saying, okay this is another list so let me sort it and then return a number based on where it would go if it was the new index:

[29.046875, 1] -> [1, 0]

Because 1 would come before 29 if it was sorted in ascending order.
It does this for every nested list then gives you a final list containing all these 1's and 0's.
This answers the first question. Another user was able to answer the second :)

A: You must set axis like:
import numpy as np

l = [[29.046875, 1], [33.65625, 1], [18.359375, 1], [11.296875, 1], [36.671875, 1], [23.578125, 1],[34.5625, 1]]
l = np.argsort(l, axis=0)  # sorts along first axis (down)
print(l)

output:
[[3 0]
 [2 1]
 [5 2]
 [0 3]
 [1 4]
 [6 5]
 [4 6]]

A: Try this;
sortedList = listNumber[listNumber[:,0].argsort(axis=0)]
print(sortedList)

A: I don't know why people like using predone functions instead of using their own algorithm.  Anyway, you are using argsort in a bad way. argsort returns an array containing the INDEXES of your elements, thos are 2 examples :
Code 1:

import numpy as geek

# input array

in_arr = geek.array([ 2, 0,  1, 5, 4, 1, 9])

print ("Input unsorted array : ", in_arr)

out_arr = geek.argsort(in_arr)

print ("Output sorted array indices : ", out_arr)

print("Output sorted array : ", in_arr[out_arr])

Output :
Input unsorted array :  [2 0 1 5 4 1 9]
Output sorted array indices :  [1 2 5 0 4 3 6]
Output sorted array :  [0 1 1 2 4 5 9]

Code 2:

# Python program explaining
# argpartition() function

import numpy as geek

# input 2d array

in_arr = geek.array([[ 2, 0, 1], [ 5, 4, 3]])

print ("Input array : ", in_arr)

# output sorted array indices

out_arr1 = geek.argsort(in_arr, kind ='mergesort', axis = 0)

print ("Output sorteded array indices along axis 0: ", out_arr1)

out_arr2 = geek.argsort(in_arr, kind ='heapsort', axis = 1)

print ("Output sorteded array indices along axis 1: ", out_arr2)

Output:
Input array :  [[2 0 1]
 [5 4 3]]
Output sorteded array indices along axis 0:  [[0 0 0]
 [1 1 1]]
Output sorteded array indices along axis 1:  [[1 2 0]
 [2 1 0]]

I am supposing that your data is stored in listnumber
import numpy as np
new_listnumber = listnumber[:, 0]
index_array = np.argsort(new_listnumber , axis=0)
New_val = listnumber[index_array]
print(New_val)

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Economist Edward Lee said the government must take a few measures to take full advantage and benefit from the situation. — Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 22 — Malaysia is in a good position to benefit from the US-China trade war in 2019, observed Standard Chartered Asean and South Asia chief economist Edward Lee.
In a media briefing today, Lee pointed out that Malaysia is the third most attractive nation (behind Vietnam and Mexico) in terms of taking advantage of the trade disagreement between Western and Asian superpowers. This is due to its labour cost and quality, infrastructure, customs policies, ease of doing business and overall excellent environment.
However,he acknowledged that the government must take a few measures to take full advantage and benefit from the situation.
"It's not my space to think about micro-policies but I think the government should go out and identify more foreign direct investment (FDI) sources. We should go after more FDI sources and ensure that Malaysia is on their minds when they think about shifting.
"The macro policies are already there but it's really about micro policy tweaking because it's a very competitive world out there. Companies are not thinking only on labour cost and qualities but also incentives.
"To commit capital to a new country needs a lot of incentives and they (companies) have a lot to consider and incentives will help. Being on top of trade agreements will also help because a trade agreement can have negative outcome if a country isn't a part of it," Lee explained.
He felt that due to the strained ties stemming from trade deficit from US to China, there's very good reason that Chinese manufacturers are looking to expand their supply chain movement out of their country.
The nearest and most attractive nations to China are Vietnam and Malaysia which also sell similar products to the US.
At the same time, Malaysian companies can also take advantage of the US-China trade disruption but the real result can only happen in the long term.
"Let's say a Malaysian company gets increased orders. But how much overcapacity can you run on a sustainable basis? Realistically, it would be around 120 per cent if you factor in overtime and such.
"But at the same time, to sustain this you must increase your investments which takes time. It takes time for us to see this sort of positive effect coming in," he said.
Touching on the possible truce of the dispute between the two superpowers come March this year, Lee thinks whatever truce that happens will be for the short term.
He explained that the issue is far more complicated than mere trade deficits as it also encompasses intellectual property, false technology transfers, restricted access to the domestic market in China and global superpower dominance among other factors.
Lee said that the packages worked out in the current round of negotiations will placate market concerns but only temporarily.
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June Morris was in her late 30s when she founded a travel agency in Salt Lake City five decades ago. She operated from a single desk at a photo-finishing company owned by her husband. Her first hire was one of her sisters.
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"It would be helpful if it had a more detailed view of what has been quarantined, for people who don't have Lifecycle licenses. Other than that, it's pretty good." "One of the things that we specifically did ask for is support for transitive dependencies. Sometimes a dependency that we define in our POM file for a certain library will be dependent on other stuff and we will pull that stuff in, then you get a cascade of libraries that are pulled in. This caused confusing to us at first, because we would see a component that would have security ticket or security notification on it and wonder "Where is this coming in from?" Because when we checked what we defined as our dependencies it's not there. It didn't take us too long effort to realize that it was a transitive dependency pulled in by something else, but the question then remains "Which dependency is doing that?"" "We had some issues, and I think we might still have some issues, where the Sonatype Nexus Repository has integrations with IQ and SonarQube. We're getting some errors on the UI, so we've had Sonatype look into that a little bit." "It's the right kind of tool and going in the right direction, but it really needs to be more code-driven and oriented to be scaled at the developer level." "The biggest thing that I have run into, which there are ways around, is being able to easily access the auditing data from a third-party tool; being able to pull all of that into one place in a cohesive manner where you can report off of that. We've had a little bit of a challenge with that. There are a number of things available to work with, to help with that in the tool, but we just haven't explored them yet." "One area of improvement, about which I have spoken to the Sonatype architect a while ago, is related to the installation. We still have an installation on Linux machines. The installation should move to EKS or Kubernetes so that we can do rollover updates, and we don't have to take the service down. My primary focus is to have at least triple line availability of my tools, which gives me a very small window to update my tools, including IQ. Not having them on Kubernetes means that every time we are performing an upgrade, there is downtime. It impacts the 0.1% allocated downtime that we are allowed to have, which becomes a challenge. So, if there is Kubernetes installation, it would be much easier. That's one thing that definitely needs to be improved." "Some of the APIs are just REST APIs and I would like to see more of the functionality in the plugin side of the world. For example, with the RESTful API I can actually delete or move an artifact from one Nexus repository to another. I can't do that with the pipeline API, as of yet. I'd like to see a bit more functionality on that side." "Nexus Lifecycle is multiple products. One drawback I've noticed is that there are some differences in the features between the products within Lifecycle. They need to maintain the same structure, but there are some slight differences."
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"The price is quite high because the behavior of the software during the scan is similar to competing products."
"The price is low. It's not an expensive solution."
"Black Duck is more suitable if you require a lot of licensing compliance. For smaller organizations, WhiteSource is better because its pricing policies are not really suitable for huge organizations."
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"The price is good. We certainly get a lot more in return. However, it's also hard to get the funds to roll out such a product for the entire firm. Therefore, pricing has been a limiting factor for us. However, it's a fair price."
"The license fee may be a bit harder for startups to justify. But it will save you a headache later as well as peace of mind. Additionally, it shows your own customers that you value security stuff and will protect yourselves from any licensing issues, which is good marketing too."
"In addition to the license fee for IQ Server, you have to factor in some running costs. We use AWS, so we spun up an additional VM to run this. If the database is RDS that adds a little bit extra too. Of course someone could run it on a pre-existing VM or physical server to reduce costs. I should add that compared to the license fee, the running costs are so minimal they had no effect on our decision to use IQ Server."
"Pricing is decent. It's not horrible. It's middle-of-the-road, as far as our ranking goes. They're a little bit more but that's also because they provide more."
"Lifecycle, to the best of my recollection, had the best pricing compared with other solutions."
"Cost is a drawback. It's somewhat costly."
"It's expensive, but you get what you pay for. There were no problems with the base license and how they do it. It was transparent. You don't have to worry. You can scan to your heart's delight."
"Given the number of users we have, it is one of the most expensive tools in our portfolio, which includes some real heavy-duty tools such as GitLab, Jira, etc. It is definitely a bit on the expensive side, and the ambiguity in how the licenses are calculated adds to the cost as well. If there is a better understanding of how the licenses are being calculated, there would be a better agreement between the two parties, and the cost might also be a little less. There is no extra cost from Sonatype. There is an operational cost on the BT side in terms of resources, etc."
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What is Hate Crime?
Police Definition of Hate Crime – Any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person's actual or perceived race, religion, [disability], sexual orientation or transgender identity.
This includes crimes that are:
homophobic,
biphobic,
transphobic,
towards those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans (LGBT)
towards those who are perceived to be LGBT.
Many people experience incidents that involve everyday verbal abuse or derogatory language
– this may be a crime, report it.
It could just be a public order offence but is still a crime.
"I'm a gay woman. As I was walking along holding hands with my partner someone threatened to beat us up." – Report it
"I'm a trans woman. As I waited for the bus a woman shouted out, 'you tranny freak, you shouldn't be allowed to be outside'. It left me feeling really shaken and upset." Report it
"I'm a gay man. I noticed a rowdy group of men walking along a crowded street on a Saturday night. They were chanting 'we hate queers'." – Report it
"I heard a religious person preaching homophobic remarks in the street. Aren't they committing a Public Order Offence?" – This is freedom of expression – unless it incites hatred.
If you are hit / assaulted while experiencing obviously homophobic, biphobic or transphobic comments…
…then this is a crime, report it.
Physical violence is a crime in its own right. If it is hate motivated then the punishment or sentence is stronger.
"I'm a bisexual man. As I was leaving my local LGBT pub I was followed, jumped on and hit by a group shouting 'fucking queer'."
What about people making prejudiced comments or offensive jokes?
If you feel it is motivated by prejudice – then report it as a hate crime incident, even if you are not sure.
Keep receiving messages either on my phone or through emails?
When in public I always hear an individual commenting to the crowd how bad the LGBT community is.
This may be a crime if they are encouraging others to commit crimes against someone or a group of people based on their sexual orientation, through:
videos such as YouTube
chat forums
If the content is calling for violence against lesbian, gay or bisexual people then this is incitement and is a crime.
Incitement towards transgender people is not covered in the same way, in law, but any form of incitement is wrong and should be reported.
If in doubt and you feel it is motivated by prejudice – then report it as a hate crime incident, even if you are not sure.
I think I'm being blackmailed about who I am.
"I'm a bisexual man and I'm married to my female partner. A colleague found out I'm bi and is threatening to tell people I'm really gay unless I give him £5000."
This is a crime. It is an offence for someone to try to obtain money or gifts in return for not revealing someone's true sexual or gender identity.
Report it as a hate crime incident, even if you are not sure.
Refusal of goods, facilities or services
"My partner and I were holding hands in a café. The owner asked us to stop or we'd have to leave. Isn't that a hate crime?"
Being refused services (which includes goods and facilities) because of your gender identity or sexual orientation is discrimination and is illegal under the Equality Act 2010.
However, it isn't a criminal offence though, so the police cannot take action.
Options might include talking to a charity for advice, making a complaint to the organisation that refused you a service or getting legal help to take action in court.
This information was produced using a resource produced by Galop, an LGBT anti-violence charity providing support, advice and advocacy to people facing hate crime, domestic abuse or sexual violence. It is a part of a series of 17 resources on hate crime for LGBT people and service providers, created on behalf of the National LGBT Hate Crime Partnership. Find out about our work at www.galop.org.uk and www.lgbthatecrime.org.uk
The information was originally produced in 2016 by Nick Antjoule.


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Tiny House Chattanooga, which last year made history with the first American-made steel-framed tiny house ever, has a new build out. The red-and-gray siding and the fifth-wheel trailer make it look a lot different from that pioneering effort, but when you look inside you'll notice that the layout is almost exactly the same. Well, if it works, why change it? There's a living area waiting for the buyer's furniture, a galley kitchen with long counters and the essential appliances (oven with hood, refrigerator), a washer/dryer in its own alcove between that and the bathroom, and a sleeping loft above a flight of storage stairs. The slanting shed roof means there's not that much headroom in the loft, but the windows lining the high side give you some ventilation and a good view out.


The broomstick drill shows you what a neutral spine should feel like. From the outside, a neutral spine should look like a relatively flat back — no excessive arching or rounding. The spine itself is still curved, but nothing should look overly pronounced.
1Grab a broomstick (or something of the sort) and line it up on your back so that it touches three points of contact.
Make sure you find a broomstick long enough to reach from the top of your head down to your tailbone. The first point you want the broomstick to touch is the very back of your head, the second point is your upper back (your thoracic spine), and the third point is your tailbone (sacrum).
2Hold the broomstick with one arm behind your neck and one arm behind your low back.
Don't overarch your lower back.
3While maintaining these three points of contact on the broomstick, start to perform a few sets of hinges.
If at any time the broomstick disengages from any of the three points, reset and try again. Pay extra attention to your tailbone, because many times that's the first point of contact to leave the stick.


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Our fab Los Angeles editor Jude Gold was recently interviewed by Musicians Institute's Matthew Brookens for a promo clip for the school.
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I think a lighter weight wool layer is good for this dilemma. A thin wool filled comforter is great especially if you don't want something too puffy (like down).
If you do like puffiness, then a summer weight down duvet is good. I find the "summer weight" concept for down rather funny. It's "summer weight" if you crank the A/C up really high and it's cold in your house... otherwise the down is just too warm. That's why a summer weight is actually good for right now.


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Q: Scheme Macro - Adding a Header to a file I am writing a scheme macro for a simulation tool. I create thousands of files and I want to add a header (6 lines) to each file. The code for my header runs well and the header gets created in the right way.
But the adding of the header to my file is buggy. It does not add the 6 header lines to top of my files without touching the rest, it delets the first information that are in my file. How much information is deleted, depends on the total length of header-information.
(let* ((out (open-input-output-file filename0) ))
            (display header out)
            (newline out)
            (close-output-port out))

This is how my file looks without the header:
TracePro Release: 20 6 0
Irradiance Map Data for D:****\TracePro\Aktive\sim_mod_09.oml
Linear Units in millimeters
Data for absorbing_area_focuscircle Surface 0
Data generated at 10:55:56 May 28, 2021

This is how my file looks with the header:
axle        x       y       z       a       b       c
pyra        0       0       0       0       0       0
lens        0       0       0       0       0       0
coll        0       0       0       0       0       0
mir1        0       0       0       0       0       0
glass1      0       0       0       0       0       0
ing_area_focuscircle Surface 0
Data generated at 10:57:29 May 28, 2021
Raytrace Time: mins: 0, secs: 0*

Projected Plane Extent from surface geometry
      TopLeft:(-1.05125,-214.755,-1.05125)
      TopRight:(1.05125,-214.755,-1.05125)
      BottomLeft:(-1.05125,-214.755,1.05125)
      BottomRight:(1.05125,-214.755,1.05125)

A: This isn't really an answer, especially as my knowledge of the Scheme language standards isn't good enough to even know if this is possible within a strictly-defined Scheme.  However I'll show why it's hard, and then give an example of how to solve it in Racket, first by cheating to make a probably-correct answer and then by trying to do it the hard way to make a probably-not-correct answer.
Why it is hard
No modern filesystem I know of allows you to open a file for 'insertion' where new content is inserted into the file, pushing existing content 'down' the file.  Instead you can open a file for writing, conceptually, in two ways:

*

*for appending, which will append new content at the end;

*for overwriting, which will overwrite existing content with new.

(Actually these may be the same: opening for appending may just open for overwriting and then move the current location to the end of the file.)
So what you're doing in your sample is opening for overwriting, and then clobbering the content of the file with the header.
How to do it, in outline
The way to do what you need to do, in outline, is:

*

*create and open a temporary file in the same directory as the file you care about;

*write the new content to the temporary file;

*copy all the content of the existing file to the temporary file;

*close the temporary file;

*if all is well, rename the temporary file on top of the existing file, if all is not OK, delete it.

If you do this carefully it is safe, because file renames are atomic, or should be, in the filesystem, if the two files are in the same directory.  That means that the rename should either completely succeed or completely fail, even if the system crashes part way through or the filesystem fills or something like that.  If the filesystem doesn't garuantee that then you're pretty much stuck.
But doing it carefully is not easy (I should admit here that some of my background is doing things like this to system-critical files, so I've spent too long thinking about how to make this safe in a context where getting it wrong is very serious indeed).
Solving this in Racket by cheating
As I said, getting the above process right is hard, and it is therefore something you often want to rely on a battle-tested library for.  Racket has such a thing: call-with-atomic-output-file.  This seems to be designed to solve exactly this problem: it deals with creating and opening the temporary file for you, deals with the renaming at the end and cleans up appropriately.  All you need is a function which copies things around.
So here is a function, prepend-to-file which uses call-with-atomic-output-file to try and do what you want.  This is Racket-specific, in many ways, and it is also somewhat overengineered.
(define (prepend-to-file file content #:buffer-size (buffer-size 40960))
  ;; prepend content to file
  ;;
  ;; Try to be a bit too clever about whether we're copying strings or bytes
  ;; based on the argument
  (let-values ([(read-it! write-it make-it)
                (if (bytes? content)
                    (values read-bytes! write-bytes make-bytes)
                    (values read-string! write-string make-string))])
    (call-with-atomic-output-file file
      (λ (out path)
        ;; out is open for writing to the temporary file, path is the
        ;; temporary file's pathname which we don't care about
        (call-with-input-file file
          (λ (in)
            ;; in is now open for reading from the real file
            (write-it content out)
            (let ([buffer (make-it buffer-size)])
              ;; copy in to out using a buffer
              (for ([nread (in-producer (thunk
                                         (read-it! buffer in))
                                        eof-object?)])
                (write-it buffer out 0 nread)))
            ;; OK just return the file for want of anything better
            file))))))

I think it's reasonably likely that the above code actually works in most reasonable cases.
Solving this in Racket without cheating
If we could write call-with-atomic-output-file then we could solve the problem without cheating.  But getting this right is hard.  Here is an attempt to do this, which is almost certainly incorrect:
(define (call/temporary-output-file file proc)
  (let ([tmpname (string-append file
                                "-"
                                (number->string (random (expt 2 24))))]
        [managed #f]
        [once #t])
    ;; tmpname is the name of the temporary file: this assumes pathnames are
    ;; only strings, which is wrong.  managed is a flag which tells us if
    ;; proc returned normally, once is a flag which attempts to prevent any
    ;; continuation nasties so the whole thing can only happen once.
    (call-with-output-file tmpname
      (λ (out)
        (dynamic-wind
         (thunk
          (when (not once)
            ;; if this is the case we're getting back in, and this
            ;; is not OK
            (error 'call/temporary-output-file
                   "this is hopeless")))
         (thunk
          ;; call proc and if it returns normally note that
          (begin0 (proc out tmpname)
                  (set! managed #t)))
         (thunk
          ;; close the output port regardless
          (close-output-port out)
          (if managed
              ;; We did OK, so rename the file in place
              (rename-file-or-directory tmpname file #t)
              ;; failed, nuke the temporary file
              (when (file-exists? tmpname)
                (delete-file tmpname)))
          ;; finally set once false to prevent shenanigans
          (set! once #f)))))))

Notes:

*

*this is still Racket-specific, but it now depends only on simpler functions which have, probably, more obvious counterparts in other implementations (or in the standard);

*it tries to deal with some of the edge cases, but almost certainly misses some;

*it certainly does not cope in cases such as the rename failing and so on;

Again: don't use this: it's almost certainly buggy.
However if you did use this, then you could simply splice it in instead of call-with-atomic-output-file in the above code and it will, often but probably not always, work.


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135,000 Will Die Due to Lack of Insurance Before Health Reform Takes Effect, Study Finds /
135,000 Will Die Due to Lack of Insurance Before Health Reform Takes Effect, Study Finds
If Democrats manage to pull off efforts to reform the US healthcare system and ensure coverage for millions who are currently without insurance, the new system -- by design -- will likely still leave tens of thousands to die without insurance before reforms kick in.
A Raw Story analysis, based on a recent Harvard Medical School study, estimates that 135,000 American citizens and over 6,600 US veterans will die due to a lack of health insurance before current proposed healthcare reform measures would take effect.
One hundred and thirty-five thousand US lives far exceeds the total number of Americans who died in the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the attacks of 9/11 combined. The lives of over 6,600 US veterans is more -- by over 1,300 -- than the total number of US soldiers who have thus far died in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a professor of medicine at Harvard University and co-author of the Harvard Medical School study, called Raw Story's estimates "quite reasonable."
Even more shocking is that these are conservative estimates.
Health reform policy experts who spoke with Raw Story confirmed that the House and Senate bills would do virtually nothing for currently uninsured Americans until 2013 and 2014, respectively. Raw Story's calculations are based on the House health reform bill's projections. The Senate bill, however, would add another year of lethal lag time, driving up the estimated death rate by tens of thousands more US citizens and veterans.
In part, the proposed Senate and House healthcare reform bills don't begin providing comprehensive coverage for several years because they are designed to meet President Obama's promised goal of creating a "deficit-neutral" healthcare package.
Raw Story's analysis is based on a recent Harvard Medical School study published in the American Journal of Public Health and a subsequent report by a team of Harvard Medical School researchers who took part in the initial study.
The first study revealed that approximately 45,000 Americans die each year from lack of health insurance. The second study, released on the eve of this past Veterans Day, estimated that more than 2,200 US veterans died in 2008 due to a lack of health insurance.
In an interview with Raw Story, Dr. David Himmelstein, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-author of the two studies, also pointed out a rarely discussed fact: The proposed reforms in both the House and Senate bills, even in the long run, would still leave "vast numbers" of Americans uninsured and those who are partially insured with inadequate coverage.
In the House bill, for instance, even after uninsured Americans would begin receiving health insurance, a projected 18 million would still not be covered; roughly 23 million would remain uninsured in the Senate bill.
"So basically they've taken the bad approach and the slow approach both," said Himmelstein, a proponent of a national single-payer healthcare system. "And there's no particular reason other than political expediency why either of those things should exist."
Veterans' advocate says analysis 'very disturbing'
Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, called Raw Story's analysis "very disturbing" and said the "tragic" numbers demand "immediate action by the President of the United States."
"Veterans for Common Sense is outraged that, in 2009, veterans are dying because of a lack of healthcare," Sullivan said. "We believe healthcare is a human right."
He did, however, credit President Obama for taking steps to reverse what he described as former President Bush's "deplorable" legacy of neglecting veterans' health.
Sullivan also believes this is a national security issue and cited, for example, the correlation between the shortage of physicians in the military and the suicide epidemic.
Just last month, the Christian Science Monitor reported that the US Army is understaffed by as many as 800 mental health professionals and 300 substance abuse counselors. On Monday, Time magazine reported that the Army has so far lost 147 soldiers this year to suicide, which is the highest number of suicides since the Army began keeping track of them in 1980.
"You can't deploy someone to war two or three times and never give them a mental health exam," Sullivan said.
"And when a veteran says he's having nightmares, he can't sleep and has to see a doctor," he continued, "but he has to wait several months before someone tells him he's not going to see a doctor at all and then goes and blows his brains out. That's essentially what's happening right here. And that's a legacy of President Bush's failure."
Woolhandler, who testified before Congress in 2007 about uninsured veterans, also sees these numbers, both for US veterans and everyday citizens as a national security issue.
"Other developed countries have dealt with it that way," said Woolhandler, who supports a single-payer healthcare system. "They've said as a matter of national policy, we need to make our people healthy and secure financial health with health insurance and have felt that was a national obligation. I think that the other nations are correct in that regard."
Himmelstein said that the health of our citizens and veterans is not considered a national security issue "because the powerful forces in our country don't care about the people who die."
"The insurance companies and the corporate interests who largely fund our government don't actually care if 45,000 people or 2,200 veterans die," he said. "They do care to maintain the US control of, or at least contention for, oil-rich parts of the world and strategic assets and those sorts of things. So I think it's a matter of what's in the interest of the corporations that by and large make policy in this country."
Why the wait until 2013 or 2014?
While a new health insurance system certainly can't be implemented overnight, health and policy experts believe the delay in providing uninsured Americans with health insurance is chiefly due to political considerations.
Dr. Himmelstein asked, "Why do we need to wait three or four years for a program to kick in?" and noted the speed with which Medicare went into effect.
President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law on July 30, 1965 and millions of seniors began receiving coverage within 11 months.
Himmelstein said the reason for the delay in either of the health reform bills is "very simple" and called it an "accounting trick."
"It's because it's so expensive that in order to get a ten-year budget estimate that's under the $900 billion figure, you have to delay it for three or four years," he explained. "It's really a budget estimate that's only six years worth of reform. That's the only way they can keep the cost estimate down to something that's conceivable."
Agreeing with Himmelstein's assessment, Dr. Woolhandler said, "Logistics are doable in a very short timeframe. The politics are the difficult part."
She added, "Ten years of taxes and six or seven years of benefits, so of course you can make something break even."
Steve Findlay, senior health policy analyst at Consumers Union, the independent non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports, thinks that's "absolutely" the case and described it as "a tried and true" method of funding big government programs.
"Part of the drill here is to start collecting money and then the benefit doesn't actually kick in until later," Findlay said. "Once you begin to parse things out, you realize that one of your most substantial ways of saving money or of making the budget work is to, well, let's just put that off for a year."
Congressional Budget Office spokeswoman Melissa Merson declined to comment for this article.
Findlay, though, did point out that it's going to take time to set up the new marketplace.
But he added, "Could they do it faster than 2014 or 2013? You know, you go to war sometimes in two weeks. So I mean when you want to do things, you can do them. But in this case, arguably it's not war. We would love to see it implemented sooner."
Additionally, Findlay sees "industry influence" as a deciding factor in the lag time.
He explained that whenever large-scale changes and "mega programs" like this are launched they usually have an implementation process that takes two to three years.
"But the reason for that, speaking very frankly," Findlay said, "is industry influence on the process. Industry will always be arguing in the hallways of Congress, 'If you're going to do it, you know, at least give us a few years.' And their argument is always the same really: 'It's going to cost us a lot of money to do this. We have to change our systems. We have to readjust our products and our services.' And blah, blah, blah."
"That's an argument that almost always prevails with respect to whether it's environmental regulations, welfare policy, you name it," he continued.
But Findlay noted the stimulus package, in which some of our largest financial institutions received a government bailout in a much shorter timeframe, was an exception.
Margaret F. Riley, a health law professor at the University of Virginia, thinks the budget is a "huge" reason for the delay. Yet she also believes there are other reasonable political considerations at play, such as the desire to avoid negatively affecting the health insurance of Americans who are already receiving benefits in the process of rolling out a new system.
Still, she said, "I'm not a fan of the delay. I think there are many reasons the delay runs risks."
Her primary concern is what might transpire in the interim.
"In the political world," Riley noted, "four years is an eternity and anything could happen to any bill passed."
The White House, Senate Leader Harry Reid's office, and House Leader Nancy Pelosi's office did not return Raw Story's calls for comment.